From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@kernel.org>,
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>, Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHv3 4/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf (WIP)
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:40:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106081840.17253.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110606222500.GE30588@elie>
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>>> +$GIT::
>>> + Core git executable to use. By default set to `$GIT_BINDIR/git`, which
> [...]
>> I think a better default would be "git", so if a newer git gets
>> installed in /usr/local/bin then gitweb would notice automatically.
>
> Wait, that's quite wrong. What I was forgetting about is the case
> where the webmaster does not control the web hosting but just has a
> place to drop CGI scripts under ~/public_html/cgi-bin. In such a case
> it would be very convenient that "make install-gitweb" just does the
> right thing (including using a private copy of git).
Right, "git" might not be in PATH of a web server (which can have
reduced PATH for security reasons anyway).
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-08 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-06 17:44 [RFC/PATCHv3 0/5] Improving gitweb documentation, creating manpages Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [PATCHv3 1/5] gitweb: Move information about installation from README to INSTALL Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 19:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [PATCHv3 2/5] gitweb: Describe CSSMIN and JSMIN in gitweb/INSTALL Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 20:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-08 11:32 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [PATCHv3 3/5] gitweb: Move "Requirements" up " Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 20:05 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [RFC/PATCHv3 4/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for /etc/gitweb.conf (WIP) Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 22:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-06 22:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-08 16:40 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-06-07 13:00 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-07 13:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-07 16:27 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-07 16:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-07 17:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-07 17:43 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-07 19:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-07 19:50 ` Drew Northup
2011-06-10 17:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-08 16:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-06-06 17:44 ` [RFC/PATCHv3 5/5] gitweb: Starting work on a man page for gitweb (WIP) Jakub Narebski
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